lun apr 19 18:23:44 CEST 2010

Why italian underground scene died

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When   I   read   this article on Phrack some  time  ago,  I  was
quite  skeptical and still quite optimistic for the future of our
little Italian reality. But then it was  quite  easy  to  realize
that,  in  a country having the lowest density of graduate people
in Europe, where research is treated as an expenditure,  and  not
as  an  investment,  and  research  are worse paid then a generic
worker, and were trash television, trash press and  trash  wishes
for  young  people's future are THE reality, no underground scene
very different from a  "trash  web  oriented"  scene  could  take
place.  There's  been a period in which and underground scene was
real. The age of onda_quadra's team, or even earlier. The age  in
which  young boys still played with their real toys, without try-
ing to break into their friend's computer. That age has gone now,
our  dear  old  friends  are  all married, workers and they can't
spend their time in a web were the average age  in  latest  years
has  drastically  fallen.  And why should we post our software or
papers on the net? To let a 13-year-old little boy rip  them  and
spread  them  around as belonging to him, without understanding a
single line? The underground scene can only be double  linked  to
the  society it refers to. Moreover, the web is the mirror of the
society, the perfect place to analyze the health of  the  society
that  meets itself on a web server, on a social network, on a fo-
rum. And if the society beyond a screen and a keyboard is  deeply
ill,  the  web can just be ill too. This is the reason why Phrack
guys are right considering our country as a 'zombie scene',  this
is the reason why we probably can never have again valid program-
mers or IT experts freely sharing their knowledge on the web. Why
should they?

See you around, BlackLight


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